United Nation Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) has teamed up with Google to create a greenhouse gases emissions map. Click on an individual country to see statistics and graphs on greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, and waste management. The map currently only includes developed countries.
UNFCCC Greenhouse Gas Emissions Map
The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) has posted online the 2009 report: ”Protecting Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants in South Africa”
The CoRMSA site also contains policy briefs, reports, links, and South African legislation on immigration, refugee and asylum law.
Following on Sergio Stone’s post of this past April 29 — The Swine Flu Outbreak and International Law — Docuticker.com has very helpfully posted a link to Georgetown University Law Center (GULC) Professor Lawrence O. Gostin’s recent (July), valuable research paper “Influenza A (H1N1) and Pandemic Preparedness Under the Rule of International Law,” 301(22) JAMA 2376-2378 (2009), which analyzes Word Health Organization (WHO) powers and resources including the Global Alert and Response (GAR) system and the International Health Regulations (IHR), as well as the powers and resources of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Gostin reportedly finds that even though response to H1N1 so far has been strong, the WHO and CDC need more authority and resources to deal with pandemic threats under the rule of international law.
